Automatic lint reports (was: Re: [MacPorts] SummerOfCode modified)

William Siegrist wsiegrist at apple.com
Mon Mar 25 08:09:53 PDT 2013


On Mar 25, 2013, at 2:04 AM, Rainer Müller <raimue at macports.org> wrote:

> On 2013-03-25 08:54, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> On Mar 24, 2013, at 07:07, Rainer Müller wrote:
>>> On 2013-03-22 01:29, MacPorts wrote:
>>>> Page "SummerOfCode" was changed by cal at macports.org
>>>> Diff URL: <https://trac.macports.org/wiki/SummerOfCode?action=diff&version=202>
>>>> Revision 202
>>>> Comment: Delete task that is 1. very easy to implement using a cronjob and a script, 2. referencing a setup we no longer have (or never had?)
>>> 
>>> [...]
>>> 
>>>> -==== Check for software update / ports needing upgrade ==== #livecheck
>>>> -
>>>> -The livecheck mechanism could be extended to automatically send reports when ports are outdated, similar to how the lint mechanism sends reports on portfile commits.
>>> 
>>> The automatic lint should still happen after each commit. It sends a
>>> mail to the committer and maintainers in the Portfile if a problem is
>>> detected by 'port lint'.
>> 
>> I haven't seen a lint email in months. I suppose it got turned off, but I don't know if that was on purpose or by accident, or perhaps an oversight during a server reconfiguration.
> 
> Bill, could you please clarify whether the automatic lint is still meant
> to work?
> 

Looks like it was never ported to the new linux server. It should be functioning again now. 

-Bill





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